Regional

•Elections for 2008-09 Student Council officers at Bishop Stang High School were held recently. Of the students elected to serve, two are from the southeastern Massachusetts area. Corinne Ainsworth, of Westport, has been elected vice-president of Student Council. Ainsworth is the daughter of Walter and Annette Ainsworth; and Melanie Cordeiro, of Fall River, was elected as Historian. Cordeiro is the daughter of Anthony and Kyra Cordeiro.

Fall River

•Fall River attorney Denise Squillante has been elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Bar Association for 2008-09. A solo practitioner, she concentrates in family law, corporate law, injury and estates, and also provides business and legal consulting services to corporations.

This will be Squillante’s fourth term as an MBA officer. She previously served one term as MBA secretary and two terms as vice president.

In addition, Squillante has been elected as the Massachusetts delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates for 2008-09.

Squillante got her bachelor’s degree from Roger Williams College, in Bristol, R.I., in 1980. She went on to earn her law degree from the New England School of Law in 1983.

Rehoboth

•Kate Elizabeth Wooler, a Rehoboth resident who graduated from Dartmouth College in May, received the Rufus Choate Scholar Award during the 2007-08 year. Wooler is the daughter of Robert F. Wooler and Kathleen A. McCarthy. Rufus Choate Scholars are those students whose grade point averages are among the top five percent in the college for the academic year.

•Erik Klinkhamer, of Rehoboth, has been named the 2008 recipient of the $1,000 scholarship given annually by the Rehoboth Garden Club.

Klinkhamer is a June graduate of Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School. He is now a freshman at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Seekonk

•Andrew Tracy, of Seekonk, received the Beatty Award at Wentworth Institute of Technology’s summer commencement, held Aug. 17.

The Beatty Award is given to the graduating student with the highest overall academic standing in their class. Tracy completed the Computer Engineering Technology Program. Tracy was also named to the college’s summer dean’s list.

•Seekonk resident Brian Duarte was named to the Wentworth Institute of Technology’s summer dean’s list.

•Seekonk residents Natasha C. Ludwig and Emily S. Jutras were named to the spring dean’s list at Westfield State College.

Somerset

•The Somerset High School Class of 1958 celebrated its 50th reunion last month. A rock ’n’ roll sock hop was the first event ever held in the high school’s old gymnasium.

An informal get-together was held the second day of the reunion, and included a buffet dinner at the Venus de Milo that night. The reunion ended with a beach party at Horseneck Beach.

The class of 1958 has located all members of its graduating class. Class members include: Anne LaSalle Kachajian, Geraldine Cahill, Linda Pearson, Ponder, Eileen Borges Carriere, Ruth Oliver Paquette, Sheila O’Neil Mitchell, Sue Rivard, Dorothy Lopes, Penny Morris, Biello, Barbara Cabaral Maggiacomo, June Curt Partridge, Carol Washburn Burbank, Hannelore Herring Mattola, Joseph Cahill, Daniel Chase, Roger Caron, Steve Durfee, Louis Chagnon, John Kearns, Charles A. Chenard, Victor Buote, William Cain, Robert Sullivan, Jerry Pelletier, Wayne Stone, Steve Biello, Robert Fletcher, David Manchester, Paul Chase, and George Arruda.

In addition to the 31 classmates who attended the reunion are spouses, relatives, friends and former teachers Barbara Warton Knecht and David Knecht.

The class announced that it has established an endowment to help future Somerset High School graduate with their continued education.